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A visceral blend of classical mythology and real life stories told by street dwellers where the audience is never sure if they are hearing a well rehearsed story, legend or the truth. Naomi lizuka's Polaroid Stories takes its characters and audience into a dangerous world where myth-making and story telling creates a desperate need for greatness. Through the power of storytelling character's realities and lives are continually under threat by themselves and others defacement and scrutiny. Not all of the stories the characters tell are true, making it seem as if they are perpetual liars or possibly cannot remember the truth themselves. Through facades and lies, these characters struggle to make lives worth living in the darkness of an ever growing city. But whether or not a homeless kid seeking out drugs invents an outlandish back story for himself isn't the point, explains Jim Grimsley. "All these stories and lies add up to something like the truth."
Inspired in part by Ovids Metamorphoses, Iizuka's Polaroid Stories takes place in a dark edge of a city, a dangerous resting place for dreamers, dealers and vagabonds, all seeking camaraderie and a safe place to stay. Twisted roads and hidden paths lead the audience to this dark retelling of passionate love stories and horrible tragedies of the heart, but instead of coming from glistening clean gods, we get it from the mouths of the filthy and neglected. Polaroid Stories conveys a story of modern youths craving all the things they cannot get. Like their mythological counterparts, these modern day misfits are engulfed by needs that eat them from the inside out and consume them. With language that mixes poetry and profanity, it mimics the poetic and flowing language of Ovid's original masterpiece.
Inspired in part by Ovids Metamorphoses, Iizuka's Polaroid Stories takes place in a dark edge of a city, a dangerous resting place for dreamers, dealers and vagabonds, all seeking camaraderie and a safe place to stay. Twisted roads and hidden paths lead the audience to this dark retelling of passionate love stories and horrible tragedies of the heart, but instead of coming from glistening clean gods, we get it from the mouths of the filthy and neglected. Polaroid Stories conveys a story of modern youths craving all the things they cannot get. Like their mythological counterparts, these modern day misfits are engulfed by needs that eat them from the inside out and consume them. With language that mixes poetry and profanity, it mimics the poetic and flowing language of Ovid's original masterpiece.